I am removed from drunkenness just enough to be dangerous. Removed from the pain, fear and confusion that comes, when it is impossible, to put the bottle away for any length of time. Dangerous because all it will ever take to set me off is one single, innocent drink. With this in mind, I realize, that for the rest of my life there is no such thing as an innocent drink!
Through daily personal prayer, I arm myself with the knowledge, that if I seek to serve the Lord more than I seek to be served any desire to drink will be greatly diminished. So diminished in fact that the temptation to think about drinking ceases to exist in the area of my brain that for many years was under the influence of constant inebriation.
